An Islamic victory. Anti-Islam Bar Council forum stopped
Alhamdulillah, the anti-Islamic forum which was supposed to be run throughout the morning today has been stopped.
About 300 protesters have gathered outside Bar Council headquarters demanding that the lawyers group halt its controversial forum on ‘Conversion to Islam’ this morning. The Bar Council today, adhereing to the advice of the police – and an angry mob at its doorstep – wrapped up its half-day forum on ‘Conversion to Islam’ at 10am, an hour after it had started.
Earlier about 300 protesters have gathered outside Bar Council headquarters demanding that the lawyers group halt its controversial forum on ‘Conversion to Islam’. A leader of the protesters – PKR Kulim-Bandar Baharu parliamentarian Zulkifli Noordin – declared the abrupt end of the forum as a victory for them. By 10.40am, most of the protesters have dispersed.
The open forum on the sensitive religious issue kicked off at 9am but angry protestors have given organisers half an hour to cancel the event.
The forum is nothing more than an Article 11/IFC clone and I am glad that a stop was put to it. Issues of this nature are not qualified to be discussed by those who have no authority about it, most especially the non-Muslim lawyers infesting the Bar Council. It has nothing whatsoever to do with promoting and understanding between religions, but an underlying attempt to diffuse and destroy the Islamic character of Malaysia, God forbid! And this is something I will oppose to until my last, dying breath.
salam,
How is this a victory for us muslims?
for the way i see it, the protesters and the cancelation is a big blow to islam.
How does shouting racial taunts mean a victory to islam?
In that malaysiakini article, an International Islamic University law lecturer Dr Mehrun Siraj said that the protester was insulting islam.
"Open discussion is the way to discuss the issues between Muslims and non-Muslims. Don’t insult Islam,”
so whos views are accurate?
I'd go with the professors' . Yes there were more people out there in that angry mob, but does them make them correct because there was more?
They say a fool is born every second.
thanks
[MENJ: Its obvious that your so-called "professor" is one of those fools for not being able to see the implications that this sort of anti-Islam forum would bring.]
Comment by zamil — August 10, 2008 @ 3:47 am
Menj,
So now that PAS has said that the violence was unnecessary, and the whole of pakatan rakyat have condemned the act, have you changed your stance.
[MENJ: Unruly behaviour is condemned, but that does not mean I do not oppose the forum.]
Comment by Suresh — August 16, 2008 @ 3:16 pm